Review: Moroccan style broad bean salad
We enjoyed this tasty Moroccan style broad bean (fava beans) salad with soy yogurt and crunchy bits tonight.
It’s a delicious and a very flavorful salad from Jamie Oliver. Fresh board beans (fava beans) are nice, but if you can get frozen ones then it’s not so much work to prepare. Of course we used soy [...]
Review: Stir-Fried Tofu, Red Cabbage and Winter Squash
We recently came across this nice recipe from the New York Times. As we still have a couple of pumpkins from last year’s harvest to eat up, we were happy it find it.
This makes a very tasty dish. We served it as a main meal, but without rice or pasta. We had [...]
Review: Apricot, Beet and Cumin Soup
Dear Vegalicious Readers, this is a delicious soup we recently found at the “Daily Green” blog.
It has the earthy flavors of beets, with the mild sweetness of apricots and orange juice. Perked up with the flavors of onions, garlic and cumin. Altogether, this flavor packed soup that is really tasty. It can also be halved [...]
Review: Carrot Rhubarb Jam with Rosemary
Tigress in a jam posted this delicious marmalade recipe, which we enjoyed last weekend on Seminole pumpkin bread.
This jam, or marmalade was delicious and very easy to make. The combination of carrots, orange and rhubarb with a touch of rosemary – wow. Making the jam, I used much less sugar and vegan pectin (apple pectin) [...]
Review: Zucchini Puffs with Tomato Yogurt Sauce
This is a really tasty recipe that we enjoyed from Joshua Ploeg’s book “In Search of the Lost Taste“. We have enjoyed so many nice recipes from this book, as well as it being a fun story to read. This recipe offers a great way to use up those extra large zucchini that [...]
Review: Edamame Salad
Chef Emeril Green has lots of healthy recipes and videos of how to make them. This is an especially tasty Asian Salad. It’s very easy to make and needs just a few ingredients – carrots, daikon radish, an apple and edamame beans. The dressing is delicious and the salad a real [...]
Review: Jamaican coffee chocolate brownies
These brownies posted by Ksenia, at “Tales of a spoon” blog, are the best.
They do not use any eggs or milk, but one banana, which is not noticeable in the flavor. They are quick and easy and delicious. I did not use Jamaican coffee but did use a special Fair Trade organic [...]
Review: Raw Ravioli and Vegetable ‘Pasta’
Tonight we enjoyed Raw Ravioli found at the We Like It Raw blog.
It was a delicious meal. We enjoyed everything – the nut “cheese” filling for the ravioli as well as the delicious raw tomato sauce. We are fortunate to have a “Spirolizer”, which makes it fun and easy to enjoy fresh vegetables cut in [...]
Review: Roasted Pumpkin and Parsnip Soup
While we are still deep in winter’s cold grip, we enjoyed this warm and hearty soup from Mihl of Seitan is My Motor.
Roasting the vegetables gave the whole house a wonderful aroma, which continued when we enjoyed eating the soup.
The recipe is simple to make and luckily I had all the spices on hand, they [...]
Review: Thai Black Rice Salad
This was a colorful and delicious salad, including the nutritious forbidden rice.
This salad from Closet Cooking was not only delicious, but very nutritious. It is easy to make and the instructions are simple to follow. The only thing different that I did was to make my own vegan “fish” sauce using 2 kinds of seaweed, [...]
Review: Sweet Potato & Kale with mustard crusty tofu
We enjoyed this meal last night. It was very tasty. The combination of sweet potato with kale was surprisingly delicious.
I did not follow the instructions exactly. First the sweet potatoes were lightly steamed, so that it was not necessary to cook them so long in the frying pan, thus the kale would not be overcooked. [...]
Review: Sugared Plum Tarts
Sugar and spice and everything nice in these heart shaped tarts. The recipe was inspired by Joshua Ploeg’s book “In Search of the Lost Taste“.
I slightly adapted it by using store bought vegan puff pastry, and adding a sauce. The sauce is cinnamon-almond soy yogurt. Made from just a bit of plain soy yogurt, some [...]
Review: Pear Galettes with a Belgian Chocolate Sauce
We found these beautiful, tasty goodies at Waitrose. The are very easy to vegainize by leaving out the honey and using vegan, pure chocolate.
I used 1 sheet of puff pastry for each person. Using a small saucer, cut the puff pastry into a circle. Then 1 extra psheet of pufff pastry sliced in thin strips [...]
Review: Oriental Cole Slaw
This Oriental Cole Slaw really tastes great. We are happy to use our fresh red cabbage from the garden.
It’s also amazing that it has uncooked noodles in it to add crush. They are really great. The flavors f the salad are really nice, and even better on the second day. Be careful to read the [...]
Review: Vegan steamed dumplings
While visiting the “Gardens of the Worlds” in Berlin, we enjoyed steamed dumplings at a Chinese tea house. I have been looking forward to making them when we got back home. I followed the instructions at Riceagain to make the dough for the dumplings, and made a nice vegan filling using grated carrots, finely sliced [...]
Review: Apple Curry Rice
It’s really great how apples can lend themselves to savory recipes as well as sweet ones. We really enjoyed this curried rice recipe with apples and raisins.
We found this recipe at the Virginia Apples website. We did not do the microwave as we prefer to cook on the stove top. We cooked the rice traditionally [...]
Review: Apple Waffles
Even though it’s early fall, our apples have ripened up and we’ve been looking for new ways to use them. We’ve made a delicious apple butter, and this morning enjoyed apple waffles with apple cider sauce and apple butter.
Mmmmm, very apply. Isa, one of the very talented cooks from the post Punk Kitchen has created [...]
Review: Briam (Greek Aubergine Casserole)
We harvested eggplants from the garden today and enjoyed this tasty recipe that we found at “Garlic and Ginger”.
It’s a very tasty casserole and easy to make. As she says, the secret is to cook it long and slow and use a really good olive oil.
We had nice wholegrain rolls to sop up the juices [...]
Review: Spaghetti Squash I
We’ve grown spaghetti squash for the first time this year and we’ve been very curious about recipes for this special vegetable.
Tonight we enjoyed Spaghetti Squash I from http://allrecipes.com. It was a rather traditional style marinara sauce, with black olives and fresh basil. It was a very nice recipe. We also looking forward [...]
Review: Corn and Zucchini Quesadillas
Kevin of Closet Cooking is a gifted cook. He combines flavors to make very innovative recipes and takes excellent photographs. Unfortunately he is not vegetarian, although many of his recipes are and are easily adapted to be vegan, as this Corn and Zucchini Quesadillas recipe was.
We really enjoyed this meal tonight, and the only different [...]
Review: Zucchini Mushroom Salad
We enjoyed this salad tonight that Harald found at Cooks.com.
The Zucchini Mushroom Salad is delicious, simple, and quick to make. It also taste good even if it only has 4 hours to marinate. It is important though to drain off the liquid after the overnight marinating, otherwise there is too much liquid. It’s very tasty [...]
Review: Vegan liverwurst
Bryanna Clark Grogan is not just a great cook, she’s really gifted at inventing recipes. We recently saw her post for vegan liverwurst and were very interested to give it a chance.
It was amazing, it has a wonderful flavor and texture – whether it tastes like liverwurst or not. It’s great to have another sort [...]
Review: Baked Nippat (Sweet & Salty Onion Crackers)
Goodness, these crackers are delicious. Ramya of The Cook’s Collection blog offers this delicious recipe. It’s not vegan, however by simply substituting vegan margarine for the butter, it becomes then vegan.
The crackers are rather fun to make, allow yourself enough time, and after rolling and pressing them, my hands were lovely and soft from the [...]
Review: Marinated red cabbage and walnut salad
Phil Vickery is a famous British chef, he often appears on the t.v. cooking program “Ready Steady Cook”.
This red cabbage salad was very tasty. I used white balsamic vinegar so that the bright color of the cabbage would show through. It’s an easy salad to make and brings color to the table as well as [...]
